Publications of Alexandra Z. Worden

Freilich, M. A.; Poirier, C.; Dever, M.; Alou-Font, E.; Allen, J.; Cabornero, A.; Sudek, L.; Choi, C. J.; Ruiz, S.; Pascual, A. et al.; Farrar, J. T.; Johnston, T.M. S.; D’Asaro, E.; Worden, A. Z.; Mahadevan, A.: 3D-intrusions transport active surface microbial assemblages to the dark ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (19), e2319937121 (2024)

Harbeitner, R. C.; Wittmers, F.; Yung, C. C. M.; Eckmann, C. A.; Hehenberger, E.; Blum, M.; Needham, D. M.; Worden, A. Z.: Gradients of bacteria in the oceanic water column reveal finely-resolved vertical distributions. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0298139 (2024)

Hehenberger, E.; Guo, J.; Wilken, S.; Hoadley, K.; Sudek, L.; Poirier, C.; Dannebaum, R.; Susko, E.; Worden, A. Z.: Phosphate limitation responses in marine green algae are linked to reprogramming of the tRNA epitranscriptome and codon usage bias. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40 (12), msad251 (2023)

Strauss, J.; Deng, L.; Gao, S.; Toseland, A.; Bachy, C.; Zhang, C.; Kirkham, A.; Hopes, A.; Utting, R.; Joest, E. F. et al.; Tagliabue, A.; Löw, C.; Worden, A. Z.; Nagel, G.; Mock, T.: Plastid-localized xanthorhodopsin increases diatom biomass and ecosystem productivity in iron-limited surface oceans. Nature Microbiology 8, pp. 2050 - 2066 (2023)

Wittmers, F.; Needham, D. M.; Hehenberger, E.; Giovannoni, S. J.; Worden, A. Z.: Genomes from uncultivated Pelagiphages reveal multiple phylogenetic clades exhibiting extensive auxiliary metabolic genes and cross-family multigene transfers. mSystems 7 (5), e01522-21 (2022)

Needham, D. M.; Poirier, C.; Bachy, C.; George, E. E.; Wilken, S.; Yung, C. C. M.; Limardo, A. J.; Morando, M.; Sudek, L.; Malmstrom, R. R. et al.; Keeling, P. J.; Santoro, A. E.; Worden, A. Z.: The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nature Microbiology 7, pp. 1466 - 1479 (2022)

Bachy, C.; Wittmers, F.; Muschiol, J.; Hamilton, M.; Henrissat, B.; Worden, A. Z.: The land–sea connection: insights into the plant lineage from a green algal perspective. Annual Review of Plant Biology 73 (2), pp. 585 - 616 (2022)

Hamilton, M.; Mascioni, M.; Hehenberger, E.; Bachy, C.; Yung, C.; Vernet, M.; Worden, A. Z.: Spatiotemporal variations in Antarctic protistan communities highlight phytoplankton diversity and seasonal dominance by a novel cryptophyte lineage. mBio 12 (6), e02973-21 (2021)

Bachy, C.; Hehenberger, E.; Ling, Y.-C.; Needham, D. M.; Strauss, J.; Wilken, S.; Worden, A. Z.: Marine protists: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to their role in the marine microbiome. In: The Marine microbiome: The microbiomes of humans, animals, plants, and the environment, Vol. 3, pp. 159 - 241 (Eds. Stal, L. J.; Cretoiu, M. S.). Springer, Cham (2022)

Paap, J.: Developing CRISPR/Cas9 in Micromonas — New genetic tools for a marine model alga. Dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel (2024)